Let's Get Personal with Karla Johnson, Senior Staff Attorney with the Kinship Caregiver Law Project at Mobilization for Justice

Karla Johnson is a Senior Staff Attorney with the Kinship Caregiver Law Project at the New York City-based civil legal services organization, Mobilization for Justice (MFJ). She has spent the last 3 years representing grandparents, siblings, aunts/uncles and fictive kin in custody, guardianship, and foster care cases. She also represents clients in special immigrant juvenile and adoption matters. Prior to her work in kinship care, she practiced in MFJ's special education law group for about 6 years. Karla is a 2006 graduate of Smith College where she earned her BA in psychology. Karla earned her Master of Public Health in Health Behavior and Health Education from the University of Michigan School of Public Health in 2014 along with her JD from the University of Michigan Law School that same year. Karla is a 2016 Shriver Center on Poverty Law Racial Justice Institute Fellow. Post-fellowship, she also helped spearhead diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts within MJF.Connect with Karla on LinkedInFind us online at https://www.personaljxpod.comFind us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletterFind us on Twitter @PersonalJxPodPersonal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast. We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes. Our logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.Our episodes are edited by Tony Anderson at the University of New Mexico School of Law. Thank you, Tony! :) Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod.Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7614-pleasant-porridgeLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license  Get new episodes by email by subscribing to our Substack! Thank you to our sponsor, Themis Bar Review! Find us online at https://www.personaljxpod.comFind us on LinkedIn on our new page and subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletterFind us on Twitter @PersonalJxPodWe couldn't do this alone! So...Personal Jurisdiction is powered and distributed with Simplecast. We use Riverside.FM to record our episodes. Our episodes are edited by Scott Donnell at Run and Drum Media https://www.runanddrummedia.comOur new logo/branding was designed by Ellie Mejia, a graphic designer and illustrator located in Chicago, Illinois. Check out Ellie's work here. Our previous logos were designed by Lizzie L. O'Connor.Our Theme Song is Pleasant Porridge by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Show Less